Национальный герой Венесуэлы. В г. Государственным конгрессом Венесуэлы провозглашён Освободителем. Variant translation: Slavery is the daughter of darkness; an ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction; ambition and intrigue take advantage of the credulity and inexperience of men who have no political, economic or civil knowledge.
They mistake pure illusion for reality, license for freedom, treason for patriotism, vengeance for justice. As translated by Frederick H. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. Ambition and intrigue abuses the credulity and experience of men lacking all political, economic, and civic knowledge; they adopt pure illusion as reality; they take license for liberty, treachery for patriotism, and vengeance for justice.
